Photos from LSU Superfund Research Program Laboratories

Dr. Lavrent Khachatryan and William M Gehling, Jr. from Dellinger Lab studying environmentally persistent free radicals (EPFRs) with Electron Paramagnetic Spectroscopy (EPR).

Albert Dela Cruz from Dellinger Lab working on pentacholorophenoxyl radical verification via dosing of pentachlorophenol (PCP) vapor onto samples of the minerals/clays/humins fraction of both the contaminated soil and non-contaminated soils from a superfund site.

Dr. Slawo Lomnicki and Eric Vejerano from Dellinger Lab analyzing the extract from surrogate particulate matter (PM) by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GCMS).

Joshua  Kibet  from Dellinger Lab analyzing Tobacco component pyrolysate using GCMS.


Lucy Kiruri from Dellinger Lab working on ab initio studies on reaction mechanisms involving radical and polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins and polychlorinated dibenzofurans (PCDD/Fs) formation in gas phase.

 

Chad Thibodeaux from Poliakoff Lab collecting X-ray absorption data (XANES and EXAFS) for metal oxide nanoparticles at LSU-CAMD.

 

Udaya Rodrigo from Poliakoff Lab collecting X-ray absorption data (XANES and EXAFS) for metal oxide nanoparticles at the DCM beam line in LSU-CAMD.

Nuwan  Balapitiya from McCarley Lab synthesizing silica-supported metal oxide nanoparticles.

 

Dr. Cheri McFerrin from Hall Lab teaching undergraduate student ab-initio methods to study reactions which are difficult to study experimentally.

 

Jordy Saravia,  Dr. Paul Thevenot, and Joseph Giaimo working in Elbow Room at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center at New Orleans.

Matthew Kelley from the Dugas Lab working on Oxidative Stress Core at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center at Shreveport.